Inside Towers, Wireless Estimator and AGL Media Group reported that U.S. Representative Dave Loebsack (D-IA) visited a Crown Castle tower site in his congressional district. During the visit, Rep. Loebsack learned about the network equipment that’s installed on the tower and discussed with NATE and Crown Castle the work conducted on a daily basis building, maintaining and deploying communications tower sites and related wireless infrastructure. He also discussed the Communications Jobs Training Act, which he co-sponsored and provides “competitive grant funding for schools to develop and administer training for communications tower service, construction and maintenance.” Crown Castle government affairs manager Siely Joshi said “as the leader in shared communications infrastructure, Crown Castle endorses the proposed legislation as a means for creating quality jobs to meet the current and future workforce demand.”
The real 5G winners: Tower companies
CNN Business listed Crown Castle as one of the "big winners" in 5G expansion. CEO Jay Brown’s commentary from last month’s earning’s call was included, with Brown stating "what I find really intriguing about 5G and some of the emerging technologies is that they h...
Countdown to the closing bell With Liz Claman
Sean O’Hara, president of Pacer ETFS, noted in a segment of Closing Bell with Liz Claman there is an infrastructure revolution going on now and one of the big names in the cellphone tower business is Crown Castle. He added that "if we’re going to go to 5G, which we ess...
AT&T to install new antennas on Village cellphone tower
Crown Castle, which owns a cellular antenna tower at 620 St. Clair Street in the Village, will be replacing old, canister-shaped equipment on the tower for AT&T with new antennas and cables. The City Council unanimously voted in favor of a special land use permit to allow the remo...
New York City tries to even out access to wireless networks
New York City officials are "pushing companies that lease public space for telecom-equipment installations to move more aggressively beyond the city's core, to improve wireless services more quickly for a broader swath of residents." Samir Saini, commissioner of the city's Departm...
Crown Castle no longer plans cellular tower across from middle school/high school
New York State Assembly member Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) announced that Crown Castle has discontinued plans to build a cell tower across from Pelham Middle School and Pelham Memorial High School. Crown Castle is now reportedly looking at alternate sites the NY State Transportation ...
Super-fast 5G is still miles away from South Florida
Deployment of infrastructure necessary to bring 5G service to the South Florida metro region on a widespread basis "is not advancing as quickly as in other metro areas, and it could be months or years before residents here experience benefits of what some are calling the next indu...